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"State makes its summer recreation spots costlier" by Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff | May 21, 2009
NAHANT - On the cusp of summer, the state is raising a host of fees that will make it more expensive to golf, visit the beach, and fish at some of its most popular facilities.
I wasn't going anyway, and please stay away if you are planning on coming here.
I'm sorry, but the politicians need to be punished and exposed as the liars they are.
The increases, scheduled to take effect in mid-June, will further squeeze families who are expected to crowd public facilities in record numbers, remaining close to home for vacations because of the recession.
I wouldn't count on it; I'm staying home.
At the two state-owned golf courses, Leo J. Martin in Weston and Ponkapoag in Canton, annual membership will rise from $800 to $875. The price of 18 holes for nonmembers will increase from $25 to $30 on weekends and from $22 to $27 Monday through Thursday.
WTF is the STATE DOING owning GOLF COURSES?
I mean, should the state be appropriating money for a "multimillion-dollar reconstruction" of golf courses?
Thank the Lord I don't play that shit-stinking elitist game!
Many other public courses are holding the line on greens fees and, in some cases, offering special deals to attract more players in the down economy.
That's government for you!
Ponky is now better known for dead grass, sunken fairways, and bunkers short on sand.
Yup, it's a GOVERNMENT-RUN COURSE, all right!
Like agencies across state government, the Department of Conservation and Recreation faces steep budget cuts....
Need money?
Go here:
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A Slow Saturday Special: Statehouse Slush Fund
Hollywood S***s on Massachusetts
Biotech Giveaway Was Borrowed Money
How many times I gotta put 'em up?
On Beacon Hill, lawmakers called the increases not unreasonable in normal circumstances, but annoying and painful in the midst of a recession.
They never learn.
"It's a very unfortunate time to be raising fees," said Representative William C. Galvin of Canton, whose district includes Ponkapoag. "People across Massachusetts . . . are having a very difficult time making ends meet, and there are a lot of families living paycheck to paycheck."
Then WHY the TAX HIKES, a**holes!
Walking along the surf in Nahant yesterday, Kevin Knox said he was concerned about a "cascade effect" of rising costs. "Okay, fine, it's $2 here, except gas is also going to go up at least $2, just because it's the holiday, summer is coming," said Knox, a Boston stand-up comic who recently moved to the seaside community. "Food's gone up. Our taxes naturally are sliding up. Everything's going up, up, up."
Yeah, right, our taxes are NATURALLY SUPPOSED to RISE -- as if it's a law of theuniverse or something! Yeah, I am tired of this s*** agenda-pushing garbage!
Knox said the state should make up the money elsewhere, such as by opening food stands on the beach or cutting administrative positions.
I like the last one.
"Do we really need to get it here?" Knox asked, gesturing to the beach's 1,300-car parking lot. "Give us something. This isn't smoking. This isn't booze. It's the beach. It should be free."
Yes, going to the beach should NOT BE TAXED!!!
Beyond summer, DCR plans to raise fees at the 13 mostly urban skating rinks it manages. An hour of ice time would increase from $160 to $175 for most teams and organizations. Youth hockey officials fear that the increase, multiplied across a season of practices and games, could accelerate the sport's decline in blue-collar communities.
Un-frikkin-believable!
You know what? Go ahead!
I'm not a hockey fan, and the trees could use the break!
"Hockey's becoming a sport that's primarily going to be for the well-to-do," said Stephen Palmacci, president of Massachusetts Hockey, which this year saw a decline in youth participation of about 2 percent, which it attributed to the economy. "It's always been pretty much a working-class sport, and that's changing, unfortunately."
Yeah, like EVERYTHING!!!!!
The WHOLE WORLD is an OYSTER for the richers!
Joe Doherty, outgoing president of the Charlestown Youth Hockey Association, said the organization would weather increases next season by relying more on outside fund-raising and drawing down a small savings account. But he said the higher costs at Charlestown's Emmons Horrigan O'Neill Memorial Rink will eventually hit families, who already pay nearly $1,000 a season in dues to play on teams.
Yup, TRILLIONS for WARS and BA....
Btw, readers, I NEVER LIKED FEES for SPORTS!
That should be PART of the DEAL -- period!!!!!!
"It will hurt," he said. "Kids are going to be pushed out of playing hockey."
Awww, who gives a s***? I care about NEWS, not SPORTS!!!!
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I guess I'll have to settle for a business ad, I mean, story!
Despite the recession and fears of more layoffs at their jobs, Patrick and AnneFaye Sullivan are going on vacation this summer.
So what if it's Walt Disney World in the swelter of August? It's cheaper than going next winter, when they had originally planned....
Translation: just eat your s*** and shaddup, 'murkn!
In this unstable economy, it's no surprise that Americans are taking fewer summer vacations: A recent poll by the Associated Press/GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media found that more than half of the 1,000 Americans surveyed weren't planning a summer vacation, and a third have canceled a summer trip this year because of financial concerns.
I never made any.
And those who are traveling are so worried about their jobs and their depleted retirement savings that they're often not content to accept the first offer they see....
You are pathetic, America.
"If you're taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Europe, this is absolutely the year to do it," Seaney said.
Because I'm out of work?
But many vacationers are skipping their dream vacations this year and making more frugal plans: driving instead of flying, staying at more modest hotels, and reducing their time away.....
Oh, good!
Make the airlines scream so they will blow the whistle on the tyranny of the false-flag!!
Short road trips might also become the norm for workers who are anxious about being out of the office for too long - both those with too little to do because business has slowed or too much to do because co-workers have been laid off, said John Challenger, chief executive of Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a Chicago company that helps laid-off executives find jobs.
F*** THEM!
The RABBLE needs help!
"People are very much focused on holding on to their seat right now," he said. "They know that the job market is a treacherous place, and the safest place to be is where you're at."
Hard for me to hold my seat when the government is pounding it!
